Stress among Working Women at Madurai City with Special Reference to Women Police

Abstract

Stress is a common 20th century phenomenon. It is a consequence of man’s struggle to find balance between personality and environment. Change in technology and society leads to changes in personal and social relationships. Changes in user expectation, organization of work and increasing competence calls for constant changes in the function of institutions as well as individuals. Modern living has brought with it, not only innumerable means of comfort, but also a plethora of demands that tax human body and mind. Nowaday’s everyone talks about stress. It is cutting across all socio-economic groups of population and becoming an urgent and serious malady.